A STUNNING 100% weekend for Barwell’s Mark Dicken in the latest rounds of the Derby Phoenix 600 Championship at Anglesey has extended his series lead from six points to 77.

Dicken took four wins out of four on his Yamaha R6, including fastest laps in every race along with the club and track record for a PI 600 race, and the fastest ever race time for the class of 15min 50.18 over ten laps.

Starting from pole in the first of Saturday’s races, Dicken got away in second as several riders around him jumped the start. But he wasn’t prepared to stay there for long, and slowing down from 130mph to 40mph at Rocket corner, he went up the inside to grab the lead.

He increased the lead to two seconds by the end of lap two and six seconds by the end of lap six, so backed the pace down a little and brought it home to win by just over six seconds.

Race two brought with it temperatures well into the 20s and Dicken managed to get away and make a break at the start. From the second lap onwards he built up nearly a second a lap on everyone and came home just under seven seconds in the lead.

With more hot weather forecast, Dicken put on a new rear tyre for Sunday’s races and it clearly did the trick. He held off his championship rival for eight laps in the first race, then his pursuer lost the front end trying to keep up. After 10 laps he won by just under 13 seconds

At the start of the day’s final race, a competitor on brand new tyres took the fight to Dicken, trying to force him out wide on the rumble strips at the start. He managed to hold the lead but the pressure from behind was immense, with the gap sometimes as little as 0.2 seconds as the battle continued lap after lap.

But Dicken managed once again to make a clean break, extending the lead to two seconds and eventually all the way to five by the flag.

Dicken said: “Overall the weekend went better than I ever could imagine. I won all four races of the weekend which is something I have never done before. But the main plus point of this meeting is I came away from it leading the championship by 77 points instead of 6. It’s a nicer margin but there is still a long way to go yet.”

The next race of the season for Dicken is on July 4 at Oulton Park in Cheshire.